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State Honey Profile 2025 harvest
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Pennsylvania

NASS Region 1 - 18 of 20 reporting states

2025 production1.43Mlbs

1.2% of the U.S. crop 19.1%

Yield / colony
57 lb
+18.8% vs US
Price / lb
$4.33
+42.0% vs US
Colonies
25,000
-79.3% vs US
Stressor load
-
- vs US
Source: USDA / NASS · public aggregate datahivelinks /data/pennsylvania
01

Production & colony health

The latest USDA honey row for Pennsylvania pairs production, colony count, yield, price, and colony stressors without filling suppressed values.

Honey profile

2024 → 2025 movement

Year-over-year change across every reported honey metric for Pennsylvania.

Colonies25,000 8.7% from 23,000
Yield / colony57 lb 9.6% from 52 lb
Production1.43M lbs 19.1% from 1.20M lbs
Price / lb$4.33 22.4% from $5.58
Crop value$6.17M 7.6% from $6.67M
Benchmark

Indexed vs. U.S.

Each metric as a percentage above or below the U.S. baseline (center line = U.S. average).

derived
Yield / colony+19%57 lbs / colony
Price / lb+42%$4.33
Production / state avg-75%1.43M lbs
Crop value / state avg-65%$6.17M
Colonies / state avg-79%25,000
Colony health

Stressor fingerprint

Share of Pennsylvania colonies hit by each stressor (April-June), against the U.S. profile. Hover any axis or bar to compare.

aggregate
Varroa mites: 44.1%Other pests: 9.9%Pesticides: -Other: 3.4%Diseases: 1.1%Unknown: 2.0%VarroaOtherPesticidesOtherDiseasesUnknown
PAU.S. baseline
Varroa mites44.1%
Other pests9.9%
Other3.4%
Unknown2.0%
Diseases1.1%
Pesticides-

Varroa 44.1% state vs. 27.3% U.S.

02

Over time

The arc matters as much as the latest number. Stressor pressure is the one metric we can already track quarter to quarter for every state.

Varroa pressure, quarter by quarter

Share of Pennsylvania colonies reporting varroa mites across the official Honey Bee Colonies stressor series.

aggregate
0.0%12.5%25.0%37.5%50.0%Q1 '24: 16.5%Q2 '24: 30.1%Q3 '24: 27.1%Q4 '24: 30.3%Q1 '25: 18.4%Q2 '25: 44.1%Q1 '24Q3 '24Q1 '25Q2 '25

Official Honey Bee Colonies stressor rows only. This chart does not synthesize honey, yield, or pollination time-series shapes.

03

Pollination & opportunity

The opportunity index keeps Pennsylvania's crop demand, regional pollination fee, local colony supply, and colony health pressure visible as separate weighted inputs.

Opportunity index

Where the gap is

A transparent, weighted blend - directional context for pollination planning, not a forecast.

derived
17OPPORTUNITY

Composite of the four factors below, each scored 0-100 then weighted.

Crop demandw 40% - 18,500
1
Pollination ratew 25% - $86
41
Supply tightnessw 20% - 0.7
17
Colony healthw 15% - -
-
Crop demand overlay

Apple · Pennsylvania

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18,500bearing acres
$86benchmark fee
0.61 hives/acstocking rate
11,298implied hives needed

Apple alone implies 11,298 colony placements against 25,000 honey-producing colonies in-state - a 0.5x gap typically met by migratory operations.

04

Baselines & context

The closing cards keep structural Census baselines and related reporting states visible without mixing them into the annual honey row.

Census baseline

2022 Census of Agriculture

Structural baseline - independent of the annual honey survey.

direct
Colony inventory51,500
Honey production1.77M lbs
Honey sales$7.14M
Operations with inventory2,522